Two things before we go further.
First: this course isn't treatment and the app isn't a clinician. If your use is tied up with depression, anxiety, trauma, compulsive behaviour that spans more than porn, or if it's putting your job or relationship at serious risk, a therapist who works with compulsive sexual behaviour will do more for you in ten sessions than any app will in ten months. The best evidence we have for treating this points at CBT and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, delivered by a person.
Second: shame around this can get dark fast, and communities built on streaks and relapse are documented as making that worse for some people. A preregistered study of men in those communities found that perceived relapse was commonly followed by shame, worthlessness, and in some cases thoughts of suicide. If your head goes there, stop using this app and talk to someone.
Get help sits at the top of every lesson, on the Panic screen, and on every screen you'll meet after logging a slip. It opens real numbers you can call, and it works with no signal — the list is stored on your phone, not fetched.
You're not going to be told off here for anything. That's the deal.
Takeaways
- This is a course, not treatment. A person beats an app when it's serious.
- Get help is one tap from every lesson and works with no signal.
- Nothing you do here gets a telling-off. That's the deal.
Sources and how strong they are (3)
- Mixed evidenceMeta-analytic evidence supports CBT and ACT for problematic pornography use and related depressive symptoms, but the studies carry a high risk of bias and small samples.
- López-Pinar C, Esparza-Reig J & Bőthe B 2025, J Behav Addict 14(2):630-643, doi:10.1556/2006.2025.00018, PMID 40126561
- Mixed evidenceA preregistered survey of men recruited from reboot communities found perceived relapse commonly followed by shame, worthlessness, sadness and in some cases suicidal thoughts. The same survey asked what participants had seen on NoFap forums: 73.7% reported misogynist posts, 49.1% bullying, 42.9% anti-LGBT, 32.0% antisemitic, 23.5% posts instructing followers to harm or kill themselves and 21.1% threats to hurt someone else. The sample is self-selected and not representative, and these are participant reports rather than a count of forum content.
- Prause N & Binnie J 2023, Sexualities 27(8):1608-1640, doi:10.1177/13634607231157070
- Well establishedWhether compulsive pornography use is best modelled as an addiction is genuinely unresolved among researchers.
- Kraus SW, Krueger RB, Briken P, First MB, Stein DJ, Kaplan MS, Voon V, Abdo CHN, Grant JE, Atalla E, Reed GM 2018, World Psychiatry 17(1):109-110, doi:10.1002/wps.20499, PMID 29352554, PMC5775124
- Grubbs JB, Hoagland KC, Lee BN, Grant JT, Davison P, Reid RC, Kraus SW 2020, Clin Psychol Rev 82:101925, doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101925, PMID 33038740
- Prause N, Janssen E, Georgiadis J, Finn P, Pfaus J 2017, Lancet Psychiatry 4(12):899, doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30441-8, PMID 29179928
- Prause N 2017, Arch Sex Behav 46(8):2269-2274, doi:10.1007/s10508-017-1078-2, PMID 28940038
The full course is in the app.
All 41 lessons are in the app, every claim graded the same way, with the Panic button, the evening check-in and the anonymous community alongside them. Free.
Coming to iOS and Android.